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This might be a hotness ranking

Ranking people's looks (and sexual prowess) is an age-old human pleasure. I imagine even the cavemen came up with some kind of crude, visual way to rank their cavewomen lady friends.

It's not always men who do the ranking, as proven by Karen Owen's notorious Duke f*** list. Every time one of these lists comes to light, it causes a scandal. It's embarrassing for the rankees, and often gets the ranker into trouble. When male employees at PricewaterhouseCooper in Dublin emailed around a "Top 10" List of the firm's female employees (which made the news), they were suspended.

Apparently, hotness rankings can even get you arrested. A 17-year-old in Chicago created a Facebook list ranking 50 high school girls according to their facial features and body types. He also gave them "fun" names, like "The Designated Drunk" and "The Amazing Bisexual." The list made the news in January, and it sounds like the creative list-maker was expelled. This week, he was arrested, according to the Tribune Local:

The 17-year-old former Oak Park and River Forest High School student, who police and school officials are not identifying because he is a minor, was arrested at his Oak Park home Monday night and was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. The charges were levied with cooperation from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and Oak Park police said there will not be any additional charges...

The teenager is believed to be responsible for a list that ranked 50 female students — using racial slurs and ratings of body parts — that circulated around the school and on Facebook, police said. The teen is accused of handing out hard copies of the list Jan. 14 at various lunch periods and posting a copy online, according to police.

As Chris Matyszczyk at CNet points out, if ranking hotness were a crime, Mark Zuckerberg might have been arrested before he could get Facebook up and running.

I imagine the 17-year-old will present a defense based on his constitutional rights. If he loses and the charges stand, I'd be shocked. Because free speech is usually ranked as hotter than people's right to privacy.